For DICE Player you need to extract the zip file and move the libffmpeg.so file to /sdcard. It can not be in a folder. So, make sure to put it in the root of the sdcard. See screenshots.

For MX Player just unzip the files and put in a folder. I put unzipped files in /sdcard. See screenshots for locations and settings to turn on hardware encoding.

Also, another nice app to have is Paragon's SD Card mounter. Helps you mount usb sticks quick and painlessly. Good for watching your movies files off a thumbstick.

After playing around with MX & DICE I tend to like MX Player better. However, I noticed if I pause and restart the audio/video goes out of sync and freezes. However, if I exit MX Player and restart it I can resume from where I paused without any problems. Might be a bug somewhere. Oh well, at least it plays mkv files with DTS and with hardware decoding!

Multi-channel passthrough via hdmi means that if a media containing multichannel audio (such as dts 5.1), the Equiso will pass the dts bitstream as is via hdmi to a dts decode capable receiver. This will allow us to enjoy multichannel audio. In the audio settings of Equiso you have this as an option. Once this option is enabled, there is no audio coming out at all. I guess that if this option exist in the menu, it should be supported. This is basic stuff for streamers. I expect the Equiso team to work with their vendors to solve this (along with endorsing the xbmc community to support hw acceleration for Equiso's chipset).

(15-12-2012 12:10 AM)Gombi Wrote: [ -> ]I expect the Equiso team to work with their vendors to solve this (along with endorsing the xbmc community to support hw acceleration for Equiso's chipset).

LoL! I have yet to see anything substantial from their so called Equiso dev team. All beta patches so far have been from our community tweaks. Im quite disappointed as they don't even have a single howto written for their so called "CUSTOM" build.

Back to multi-channel pass through. Seems like other smart tv sticks are in the same boat. I think it might have to do with DTS audio not being licensed. If you search google sticks like the MK802 have the same problem. Might be out of luck. My expectations for the Equiso has been greatly lowered. Im just happy it plays DTS audio.

Yeh, I keep falling to this hole, thinking there is a real team behind this product . My bad...
Regarding dts and licensing, between the two options - first being keeping the dts bitstream as is and passing it through, and second being able to perform downmixing to two channel stereo, the latter requires licensing, since in this case you need to do s/w decoding to the dts bitstream and convert it to two channel stereo. So actually, in a normal world of streamers, what you have offered here would require licensing from dts labs. It's just that this product is so negleable that it is still flying below their radar...
dts passthrough is usually built into the chipset, you just need the audio driver or module to not screw it up.